Eight thousand homes and businesses in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital city, now have access to a fibre broadband service offering speeds of up to 100Mbit/s.
CEC Liquid Telecommunications intends offering uncapped access to the Internet to Zambian consumers.
The company a joint venture between pan-African telecoms operator Liquid Telecom Group and Copperbelt Energy Corporation, a Zambian power generation, transmission and distribution company.
The service, which is branded Fibroniks, is initially available to around 8 000 homes and businesses in the Lusaka suburbs of Rhodes Park, Northmead, Long Acres, Sunningdale and Kabulonga.
It is being sold to end users through Internet service providers that have been authorised as CEC Liquid Telecom resellers.
This year, CEC Liquid Telecom will invest around US$15m in the fibre-to-the-home build, the company said in a statement. This investment will continue indefinitely and is expected to reach 20 000 premises in Lusaka by year-end.
Services will become available as each targeted area is connected, with the likelihood that the build will extend to Copperbelt towns by the end of the year, it said.
Last month, the company announced a $5m investment in building a new fibre link between Lusaka and Victoria Falls in Livingstone. — © 2015 NewsCentral Media
